Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

Two Things that Define SUCCESS In LIFE: - The Way You Manage when You Have Nothing & Way You Behave when You Have Everything

What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.